# interupted system call

Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Mon, 6 May 1996 09:20:43 PDT

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    Edwin Steele writes:
    > May  5 22:25:51: *** Connecting in proto_open_connection: Interrupted system
    >		       call
    > Can someone explain the significance of this?

    It looks to me like you probably ran out of seconds while waiting for a call to
    open_network_connection() to succeed.

    > In addition, how often should the Name Lookup process kill itself and
    > restart?

    As often as it (a) needs to do a lookup and (b) takes longer than about 5
    seconds (or $server_options.name_lookup_timeout seconds) to do it.

    	Pavel